"Dad, Mom, I'm back." He hurried back to the yard and saw his mother feeding the old hens, while his father was weaving baskets out of bamboo. "Where did the carp come from? It's not that small." Hu Shuying looked at the carp that was no longer struggling in Wang Xuyang's hand in surprise and asked. "What do you think?" Wang Xuyang blinked and asked his mother deliberately pretending to be weird. "Guess what? You didn't bring a fishing rod. If you didn't buy it, you can still touch it in the water?" Hu Shuying said a little annoyed. "Hey, you guessed wrong, this fish" As he said this, Wang Xuyang told how he went swimming, plunged into the water and knocked the fish unconscious, which caused Hu Shuying to exclaim, and even the usually steady My father couldn't help but look at him with suspicion. "Okay, I'll kill the fish later. We'll eat sweet and sour fish at night, but what are you doing with that eel?" Mother Hu Shuying pointed at the eel in Wang Xuyang's hand again and asked. "A little adds up to a lot, I asked Liang Jiarong to go home and get the wire. Let's go fishing later and cook it for dinner at night." As he said that, Wang Xuyang threw the eel into a large water tank in the courtyard, and Washed hands. "This kid knows how to act up," Hu Shuying rolled her eyes at him again, but he was the only child in the family, so she let him act out. "Uncle Yang, I'm here, bring the steel wire." After Wang Xuyang found several tools for making eel hooks, Liang Jiarong was sweating profusely and ran into the courtyard with an excited look on his face. " Taking over two steel wires with a diameter of two millimeters and 40 centimeters from Liang Jiarong, Wang Xuyang checked the thickness and strength and toughness, and couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction. Eel hooks are divided into hard hooks and soft hooks. The method of making soft hooks is simple. Find a steel wire of the same thickness, only three or four centimeters long, sharpen the front end to complete the hook shape, then burn the tail red with fire and smash it into a fishhook. Just wrap the non-slip part with strong thread. ¡ ¡ What Wang Xuyang wants to do is to use hard hooks. The process is more complicated, but both the feel and the harvest ratio will be much better than soft hooks. Wang Xuyang helped others make eel hooks before, so he still kept most of the tools, but he could no longer find his favorite fishing hook. The order is still to sharpen the front section first, then burn it red in the coal furnace, and then twist it into a hook with a vise. Liang Jiarong's hook is slightly smaller, and Wang Xuyang's hook is naturally larger. After all, the eel weighing half a kilogram has a big mouth. Not too small. After doing all this, Wang Xuyang found two bamboos from home and cut them into the thickness of chopsticks. After burning them slightly with fire, he started to cut them with a knife. In Wang Xuyang¡¯s delicate hands, the front end of the bamboo handle was quickly cut to a thickness that was infinitely close to that of a steel wire. The further back it got, the bigger it became. According to Liu Yang¡¯s professional words, this can make it seamless, and the slender bamboo tips can help catch the signal sent by the eel after biting the hook. After whittling the two pieces of bamboo, Wang Xuyang compared them first and found out a plate of only 0.6# PE wire from the tool box after confirming that they were correct. Pinch the prepared fishing hook and bamboo together. After Wang Xuyang found the thread, he tied it tightly together and wrapped it tightly for countless turns, from the joint to the middle end of the bamboo. Liang Jiarong also wanted to help along the way, but Wang Xuyang refused without hesitation, because if the thread is not tightly wound, it will be easy to decouple. Although it sounds simple, it took Wang Xuyang two full hours to complete these two eel hooks. When Wang Xuyang checked the strength and sturdiness of the eel hook, Liang Jiarong couldn't wait to take his own small eel hook from him. After admiring it for a while, Liang Jiarong gave a thumbs up and praised, "Uncle Yang's craftsmanship is really good. I used to think that Mangwa's eel hook was pretty good, but compared with what Uncle Yang made, it's nothing." "No." "Pah," he slapped Liang Jiarong on the back of the head again, and Wang Xuyang smiled and scolded, "The hook I gave you is for catching eels, not for showing off. Don't get it wrong." "Hey," Liang Jiarong didn't get angry either, and giggled. He said, "Don't worry, I will definitely hide this hook. I won't let anyone see it if they want to see it." "Cousin Yang, let's go, it's getting late." Liang Jiarong was astonished when he got the eel hook. Zhibao, can't wait to show off his skills. "Okay, I'll get the bamboo frame." Wang Xuyang nodded, returned to his room, found the dusty bamboo frame, and tied it tightly to his body. "Wait, let's eat some corn cakes before we go." Just as the two were about to leave, Hu Shuying took out two corn cakes that had been burned in the charcoal fire and handed them to them. The two of them naturally accepted it happily, and while eating, they rushed to the small ditch they passed just now, ready to start work.??¡?¡°Hey, isn¡¯t this Brother Yang who we went out to look for big money? It seems that he didn¡¯t make any money, and he is planning to come back to grab eels from me?¡± Just as the two of them went down to the ditch and were about to start fishing for eels, something came from the side There came a slightly strange voice. The two of them looked up and saw that this person was the professional eel fisherman Liu Yang mentioned by Liang Jiarong. It was obvious that he was fishing for eels on the side. After discovering the two of them, he came to investigate. "Cross-eyed, what is robbery? This eel is not raised by you, can you take care of it?" Although Liu Yang was several years older than Liang Jiarong, he was not afraid at all with Wang Xuyang around. "You little turtle, you can shout cross-eyed, no matter how big or small." Liu Yang hated people saying he was cross-eyed, and Liang Jiarong undoubtedly offended him. ¡°You¡¯re not allowed to yell at someone if you have cross-eyes. If you have the ability, you won¡¯t have cross-eyes.¡± Liang Jiarong still refused to let go and struck again. "You" Liu Yang was a little angry, but facing the sharp-tongued Liang Jiarong, he really didn't know how to reply. "Go away, don't make me angry." Seeing Liu Yang still wanting to scold Liang Jiarong, Wang Xuyang couldn't stand it anymore and yelled at him. Being yelled at by Wang Xuyang, Liu Yang trembled all over. He couldn't help but think of the time when he was held down and beaten by Wang Xuyang when they were children. "You guys are so cruel", Liu Yang shrank his neck, left these words, turned around and left, looking back at Wang Xuyang from time to time, for fear that he would catch up and beat him again. "Cross-eyed, bullying the weak and afraid of the strong. Uncle Yang, you don't know. Earlier, Mangwa went fishing for eels, and Liu Yang said that the eels were all his. He also robbed all the eels that Mangwa caught and sold them for money. He was absolutely inhumane. "After seeing Liu Yang go away, Liang Jiarong accused Wang Xuyang of his evil deeds with an indignant look and scolded him bloody. Touching Liang Jiarong's head, Wang Xuyang comforted him, "Don't worry, from now on you can fish as you like in Wangjiagou. If he dares to bully you, you will come and tell me immediately and see if I don't deal with him." "Okay, I believe Yang Biao Uncle, then Liu Yang just needs to be dealt with. Just give him a good beating and he will be honest." Liang Jiarong nodded excitedly, the scene of Liu Yang being beaten echoed in his mind. "Okay, don't worry about him. It's getting late. Let's fish quickly, or we won't make it in time for dinner." Wang Xuyang reminded him quickly after looking at the time and seeing that it was already three-thirty in the afternoon. ¡°Okay, let¡¯s see which one of us catches more, and whoever loses, please eat ice cream later¡±?¡